Role: Actor

Gary Merrill 1915-1990, Narrator on Strange Victory, 1948 and In Search of Hart Crane, 1966. Actor and narrator, Merrill acted in dozens of films including 12 O’Clock High and All About Eve. He was married to Bette Davis for ten years.

Tom Pedi, 1919-1996, played the man helping to nurse Harry in Native Land. Pedi worked with members of the Group Theater on Broadway in Pins and Needles, 1937, which may have led to his casting in Native Land. After acting in many Broadway plays, Pedi originated the role of Harry The Horse in Guys and … Continued

Howard DaSilva, 1909-1986, actor in scores of plays, television shows and films, DaSilva (as Howard DaSylva) played Jim, the informer, in the Labor Spy sequence of Native Land, 1942.  Associated with The Group Theater and Orson Wells’ Mercury Theater, DaSilva moved between Hollywood and Broadway, before being blacklisted in 1951. He returned in the early … Continued